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Which Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if…
- The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to…
- This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking…
- The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
- Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for…
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